Eighteen new members for Open IPTV Forum in just over six months as ABox42, Axonista, BluFocus, DCC Labs, Digital TV Labs and mistserver.org join.

October 31, 2012

Following a successful IBC, the Open IPTV Forum (OIPF) is pleased to welcome set top box vendor ABox42, application developer Axonista, testing businesses BluFocus and Digital TV Labs, and technology companies DCC Labs and mistserver.org as new members. These new important contributors increase the breadth of industry support and give OIPF’s open specifications for Connected TV wider relevance within the IPTV eco-system.

September 7, 2012

New Initiative accelerates the creation of a mass market of interoperable IP-connected TVs and STBs for applications and services

August 29, 2012

The Open IPTV Forum (OIPF) is pleased to welcome DOTSCREEN, Espial, Perpetual Solutions, Stingray Digital Group and The Weather Network / MeteoMedia as new members participating in the Forum’s on-going work to shape the future of global, mass-market Internet Connected TV.

Montreal - June 28 2012- The Open IPTV Forum (OIPF) welcomes Humax, one of the world’s largest set top box vendors, and key operators Saudi Telecom Company and JT Group as latest new members at their meeting hosted by Rogers Communications.

 The Open IPTV Forum is pleased to welcome three new members – Humax, STC (Saudi Telecom) and JT Group (Jersey Telecom) – who will be participating in the Forum’s work to shape the future of Internet Connected TV.

May 25, 2012 - Orange sponsored testing event further demonstrates interoperable, standards based, end-to-end IPTV solutions from Open IPTV Forum (OIPF) in action.
The Open IPTV Forum successfully completed their latest interoperability test event at the Orange Labs in Rennes, France, where members successfully demonstrated an OIPF-based IPTV solution.

April 23, 2012 - Open IPTV Forum (OIPF) welcomes new members 3 Screen Solutions, Broadpeak, Digisoft.tv and Zenterio who have taken advantage of the new tiered fee structure to support smaller enterprises and app developers.

19 March 2012 - The Open IPTV Forum (OIPF) has created a tiered membership fee structure to encourage the participation of small and medium sized businesses. In addition to the current membership fee, one new fee level set at €2,400 is available to businesses with annual revenues of less than €10M, while another fee level of €6000 targets medium-size companies with annual revenues of less than €100M.

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12 March 2012 - The Open IPTV Forum (OIPF) and MPEG Industry Forum (MPEGIF) announce they have reached agreement to merge the assets of MPEGIF into the OIPF. The activities of the MPEG Industry Forum have reached a natural and successful conclusion with the emergence of MPEG-4 Part 10, alternatively known as H.264, as the dominant codec in next generation video technology and the proven successor to MPEG-2.

6 July 2011 - OIPF publish update to IPTV industry specifications: Innovative, exciting and converged entertainment services come closer to global deployment across TV, Tablet and mobile devices

5 July 2011 - Open IPTV Forum announce new President, Vice President and Marketing Director at Venice General Assembly.

19 May 2011 - The Open IPTV Forum (OIPF) has developed Test Specifications for products that implement the IPTV Solution Specifications and is now moving to the next phase in establishing their Certification activities. The Certification Program, which is currently under development, is essential for checking the compliance to the Specifications of products that implement the IPTV Solution Specification. The Certification Program includes the use of Test Centers executing specific test cases on a test execution environment for those products for which Certification is needed.

24 January 2012 - OIPF (Open IPTV Forum) and bmco forum (Broadcast Mobile Convergence Forum) are delighted to announce the plans to join forces and merge the activities of bmco forum into the OIPF.